"Ninlil, lady of Ki-ur, the majestic place."

"Holy Inana embarked on the [...] the barge. [...] The south wind, that south wind, rose up. The evil wind, that evil …"

"Allah took a handful of southerly wind, blew His breath over it, and created the horse."

"The south wind is harmful to man."

"Wind of the sunny south! oh, still delay In the gay woods and in the golden air, Like to a good old age released from…"

"And the South Wind—he was dressed With a ribbon round his breast That floated, flapped, and fluttered In a riotous un…"

"The East Wind, an interloper in the dominions of Westerly weather, is an impassive-faced tyrant with a sharp poniard …"

"Good old Watson! You are the one fixed point in a changing age. There's an east wind coming all the same, such a wind…"

"The east wind is a rain-bearing wind. [...] The east wind is a wind of prosperity, the friend of Naram-Suen."

"He stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind."